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Alexander Lodygin

1847 - 1923

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Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin, known after immigration to US as Alexandre de Lodyguine (Russian: Александр Николаевич Лодыгин; 18 October 1847 – 16 March 1923) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of the inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin was born in Stenshino village, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire. His parents were of a very old and noble family (descendants of Andrei Kobyla like Romanovs), but of very moderate means. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Lodygin has received more than 101,556 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Alexander Lodygin is the 195th most popular engineer (down from 113th in 2019), the 1,191st most popular biography from Russia (down from 702nd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Alexander Lodygin has had the most page views in the with 34,378 views, followed by English (8,389), and Spanish (1,807). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Sorani) (451.95%), Greek (258.02%), and Malagasy (117.83%)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alexander Lodygin ranks 195 out of 389. Before him are Ivan Yarkovsky, Kelly Johnson, Genichi Taguchi, Jorge Chávez, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, and Eugen Sänger. After him are Franz Grashof, Émile Levassor, Alphonse Pénaud, Walter Hohmann, Béla Barényi, and Evgeny Paton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Alexander Lodygin ranks 58. Before him are Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Pavel Yablochkov, Hiệp Hòa, Remus von Woyrsch, Oscar Swahn, and Bertha Wegmann. After him are William Edward Ayrton, Kálmán Mikszáth, Karl Wittgenstein, Émile Faguet, Domenico Ferrata, and Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird. Among people deceased in 1923, Alexander Lodygin ranks 70. Before him are Ernst Ziller, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, Ruy Barbosa, Stojan Protić, Takeo Arishima, and Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ. After him are Princess Marie of Battenberg, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Itō Noe, Walther Kadow, Krišjānis Barons, and Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Lodygin ranks 1,191 out of 3,761. Before him are Oleg Deripaska (1968), Yevhen Rudakov (1942), Sviatoslav III of Vladimir (1196), Stepan Petrichenko (1892), Nikita Simonyan (1926), and Igor Chislenko (1939). After him are Pavel Postyshev (1887), Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1942), Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932), Gaito Gazdanov (1903), Evgeny Schwartz (1896), and Semyon Chelyuskin (1700).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Alexander Lodygin ranks 26. Before him are Mikhail Yangel (1911), Alexei Tupolev (1925), Vitaly Abalakov (1906), Nikolay Kamov (1902), Vasily Mishin (1917), and Gotthilf Hagen (1797). After him are Vladimir Petlyakov (1891), Alexey Sudayev (1912), Nikolay Makarov (1914), Semyon Lavochkin (1900), Yuri Artsutanov (1929), and Alexander Mikulin (1895).

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